On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:32:59AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 19, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >I think the practice of using static IDs should be deprecated (and
>  >packages doing it should get lintian warnings..)  I disagree with banning
> Please provide a rationale. Some of my packages need a static ID (64000
> is assigned, the only one assigned so far) because their spool could
> need to be NFS shared.

And my home directory could be NFS stored---does that mean that uid/gid
1000 should always and forever belong to knghtbrd on every system?

It's up to the sysadmin of a given system to make sure this is done the
way they wish it to be done.

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